The LP’s highlight is an extended version of “The Wanderer,” Cash’s collaboration with U2, previously available only on the soundtrack album of director Wim Wenders’ film Faraway, So Close. His final LP for Mercury, 1991’s The Mystery of Life, put the spotlight on Cash’s songwriting with “The Greatest Cowboy of Them All” and “I’m An Easy Rider,” and found him interpreting tunes by Tom T. Seven bonus tracks, including the unreleased “I Draw the Line,” augment 1988’s Boom Chicka Boom, which also includes Cash’s cover of the Harry Chapin hit, “Cat’s in the Cradle” and another Elvis Costello tune, “Hidden Shame,” written especially for Cash. Produced by Chips Moman, special guests on the LP include Sun founder Sam Phillips, rockers John Fogerty, Rick Nelson and Dave Edmunds, songwriter Dan Penn, the Judds, June Carter Cash and famed producer Cowboy Jack Clement. Picking up right after Cash was dropped by Columbia Records in July 1986, the first album in the set revisits his Sun Records roots with Class of ʼ55: Memphis Rock & Roll Homecoming, reuniting him with Sun labelmates Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. Collecting 24 cuts from Cash’s Mercury output, the album will be available as a single CD, double LP and digital download.
Also being issued is the new greatest hits album Easy Rider: The Best of the Mercury Recordings. While the vinyl version does not include this LP, it will be available as a limited-edition LP on Record Store Day, April 18th. The CD set also includes several rare or previously unreleased tracks and an additional 20-track collection titled Classic Cash: Hall Of Fame Series (Early Mixes), featuring material mastered from tapes newly discovered in the Mercury vaults. An under-appreciated period of Johnny Cash’s lengthy recording career will be reexamined with the April 24th release of a seven-disc box set, The Complete Mercury Recordings 1986-1991, and a 24-cut “best of” collection representing highlights from this period.
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